{"id":206997,"date":"2025-09-13T06:33:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-extremely-quick-wing-carter-handed-all-blacks-debut-against-springboks\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T06:33:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:33:22","slug":"namibia-extremely-quick-wing-carter-handed-all-blacks-debut-against-springboks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-extremely-quick-wing-carter-handed-all-blacks-debut-against-springboks\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: &#8216;Extremely Quick&#8217; Wing Carter Handed All Blacks Debut Against Springboks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\"><em>Head coach Scott Robertson said Thursday that explosive wing Leroy Carter can be a &#8220;point of difference&#8221; on debut after he was named as one of five starting changes to the New Zealand side for the second Rugby Championship Test against South Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Robertson turned to a player he had previously called the fastest in New Zealand rugby for Saturday&#8217;s rematch in Wellington, after winning last week&#8217;s clash 24-17 in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Fullback Damian McKenzie and scrum-half Noah Hotham are recalled in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509120624.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach Scott Robertson said Thursday that explosive wing Leroy Carter can be a &#8220;point of difference&#8221; on debut after he was named as one of five starting changes to the New Zealand side for the second Rugby Championship Test against South Africa. Robertson turned to a player he had previously called the fastest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,21917,15347,12156,41495,10815,4706,724,257,14330,254,30652,15071],"class_list":["post-206997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blacks","tag-carter","tag-debut","tag-extremely","tag-handed","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-quick","tag-south-africa-today","tag-springboks","tag-wing"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}